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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sungari River to within 30 miles of the Amur River which at that point is the frontier. Eastward from Harbin and westward from Harbin other Japanese columns advanced out along the arms of the Chinese Eastern, which touch Russian territory at each extremity. Mysteriously a Japanese troop train was blown up on the C. E. R., 40 Japanese killed, 100 wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHURIA: Hell? | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...varsity squads, including football, will be much smaller, do less, cost less, omit pre-season practice, scouting, intersectional games, special training tables. The football team will play five games instead of seven. Like a leaking dirigible, Yale's great athletic plant will gradually deflate, will be cut up, blown up, to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale Deflates | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...Korean on the edge of the crowd threw a narrow tin box high in the air. In an ear-splitting roar, the grandstand flew apart like a mechanical toy. Minister Shigemitsu was blown into the air like a jack-in-the-box, his feet flung wide. Consul General Mural's face was unrecognizable with blood and torn flesh. Admiral Nomura's eye was blown out, General Shirakawa lost all his teeth. General Uyeda lost three toes. Kim Fung-kee, the Korean bomb-thrower, was beaten unconscious by Japanese soldiers. One W. S. Hibbard, a U. S. citizen, protested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Birthday Surprise | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Phar Lap might have nibbled. Then W. W. Vincent, chief of the Western District of the Food & Drug Administration, announced that tests on grass from a plot whence Trainer null had pulled green fodder for his charge showed .01 grains of arsenic per pound. The poison could have been blown into the plot of grass from nearby trees which were lately sprayed. The spray, in addition to the arsenic, contained arsenate of lead. But Dr. Karl Meyer of the University of California, after analyzing the lining of Phar Lap's vitals, said he could find no trace of poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wink of the Sky | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...capture they are powerless to advance. In desperation they undertake to bore under the peak to dynamite it. The defending Austrians learn of the Italian strategy but dare not relinquish their position. They listen to the sound of the drilling beneath them, not knowing when they will be blown to bits. Florian (Luis Trenker) is an Austrian soldier, a native of the village below, and deeply in love with the wife from whose arms war has torn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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